Download or read book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On written by William J. Devlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.

Download or read book Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions written by Paul Hoyningen-Huene and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work. Bibliography.

Download or read book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Short Introduction and Discussion Thomas S Kuhn s Philosophy of Science Structure of Scientific Revolutions Progress and Anomaly written by Henrik H. Koch and published by ©Copyright Koch Publishing, a division of Koch Import LLC company. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science has shaken, interested and been criticized by the scientific community. In this introduction book about Kuhn and his Philosophy of Science, we will look especially into the statements set out by Kuhn himself and what his research and claims is all about. Content: - Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science - Normal Science - Paradigm - Anomaly - Crises - Revolution - Progress - Kuhn’s viewpoints on Progress with Debate and Counter Arguments from his Critics - Conclusion Kuhn is often used as part of the curriculum at universities for Philosophy and especially Philosophy of Science, XFAC. This book will help you to get a great and compressed overview of the topic of Kuhn and his Philosophy of Science. We will go directly to the source, Thomas S. Kuhn himself and his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” from 1962. We will be focusing on his main theses, and shed light on Kuhn’s theories, his Philosophy of Science, pulled directly from the primary source, the man himself Thomas S. Kuhn. This book is written in an understandable language and is set up for you to grasp and get a good understanding of the concepts and his Philosophy of Science. The goal of this book will be to systematically present Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science. The first part of the book will be focusing on this, while the second part will be focusing on the discussion and objections and critic of Kuhn. Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in the U.S in the State of Ohio in 1922. He died in 1996, 74 years old. Kuhn had a Doctorate Degree in Physics from Harvard University. He was awarded many academic title awards during his career, such as Science Theorist and Science Historian. Kuhn got sudden fame and become a disputed person when he released his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962.

Download or read book Thomas Kuhn written by Alexander Bird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal 1962 work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced the term 'paradigm shift' into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and philosophy of science. This introduction to Kuhn's ideas covers the breadth of his philosophical work, situating "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" within Kuhn's wider thought and drawing attention to the development of his ideas over time. Kuhn's work is assessed within the context of other philosophies of science notably logical empiricism and recent developments in naturalized epistemology. The author argues that Kuhn's thinking betrays a residual commitment to many theses characteristic of the empiricists he set out to challenge. Kuhn's influence on the history and philosophy of science is assessed and where the field may be heading in the wake of Kuhn's ideas is explored.

Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Unified Science written by Otto Neurath and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World Changes written by Paul Gordon Horwich and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Kuhn is viewed as one of the most influential (and controversial) philosophers of science, and this re-release of a classic examination of one of his seminal works reflects his continuing importance. In World Changes, the contributors examine the work of Kuhn from a broad philosophical perspective, comparing earlier logical empiricism and logical positivism with the new philosophy of science inspired by Kuhn in the early 1960s. The nine chapters offer interpretations of his major work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and subsequent writings. The introduction outlines the significant concepts of Kuhn's work that are examined and is followed by a brief appraisal of Kuhn by Carl Hempel. The chapters discuss topics that include: a systematic comparison of Kuhn and Carnap viewing similarities and differences; the disputation of absolute truth; rational theory evaluation and comparison; applying theory to observation and the relation of models in a new conceptualization of theory content; and interpreting Kuhn's plurality-of-worlds thesis. The volume also presents four historical papers that speak to Kuhn's views on lexical structures and concept-formation and their antecedents. The afterward, by Kuhn himself, reviews his own philosophical development, his thoughts on the dynamics of scientific growth, and his response to issues raised by the contributors and other interpreters of his work.

Download or read book Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty written by Robert J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the “paradigm shift,” social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn’s work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions itself marks no less of a paradigm shift than those it describes. In Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” at Fifty, leading social scientists and philosophers explore the origins of Kuhn’s masterwork and its legacy fifty years on. These essays exhume important historical context for Kuhn’s work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and Kuhn’s own intellectual biography: his experiences as a physics graduate student, his close relationship with psychologists before and after the publication of Structure, and the Cold War framework of terms such as “world view” and “paradigm.”

Download or read book The Last Writings of Thomas S Kuhn written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas S. Kuhn: Scientific knowledge as historical product -- Abstract for "The Presence of Past Science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures)" -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The presence of past science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures). Lecture I: Regaining the past ; Lecture II: Portraying the past ; Lecture III: Embodying the past -- Abstract for The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development. The problem ; Scientific knowledge as historical product ; Breaking into the past ; Taxonomy and incommensurability -- A world of kinds. Biological prerequisites to linguistic description: track and situations ; Natural kinds: how their names mean ; Practices, theories, and artefactual kinds.

Download or read book Thomas Kuhn written by Steve Fuller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pilgrimage from Plato to NATO (episodes in embushelment) -- The last time scientists struggled for the soul of science -- The politics of the scientific image in the age of Conant -- From Conant's education strategy to Kuhn's research strategy -- How Kuhn unwittingly saved social science from a radical future -- The world not well lost (philosophy after Kuhn) -- Kuhnification as ritualized political impotence (the hidden history of science studies).

Download or read book The Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.

Download or read book Kuhn s Intellectual Path written by K. Brad Wray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offers an insightful and engaging theory of science that speaks to scholars across many disciplines. Though initially widely misunderstood, it had a profound impact on the way intellectuals and educated laypeople thought about science. K. Brad Wray traces the influences on Kuhn as he wrote Structure, including his 'Aristotle epiphany', his interactions, and his studies of the history of chemistry. Wray then considers the impact of Structure on the social sciences, on the history of science, and on the philosophy of science, where the problem of theory change has set the terms of contemporary realism/anti-realism debates. He examines Kuhn's frustrations with the Strong Programme sociologists' appropriations of his views, and debunks several popular claims about what influenced Kuhn as he wrote Structure. His book is a rich and comprehensive assessment of one of the most influential works in the modern sciences.

Download or read book Kuhn s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited written by Vasso Kindi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure’s publication. There has been extensive research on all of the major issues concerning the development of science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a number of topics relevant to Structure’s concerns, such as the nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the Structure’s significance in the canon of philosophy of science.

Download or read book Shifting Paradigms written by Alexander Blum and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Thomas S. Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 stands for a turning point in the history and philosophy of science. The repercussions of this work have rearticulated the theoretical framework of history and philosophy of science and have also generated discussions that contributed to the formation of the communities of historians as well as philosophers of science in many parts of the world. Different approaches to history of science have since emerged and most of them have the "Structure" as their reference point. In October 2012, a conference at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science brought together some of the historians of science whose work has played a decisive role in the ways history of science has evolved as a field of research in the past 50 years, both intellectually and institutionally. This volume gathers reflections by many of these historians on the history of the history of science, based on the presentations and discussions at the conference. The topics covered range from personal recollections of working with Thomas Kuhn to broad overviews of the historical development of the history of science as a discipline in the past half-century. The series Proceedings of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de.

Download or read book Objectivity and Diversity written by Sandra Harding and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worries about scientific objectivity just won t go away, but by now, it s safe to say, no one who reflects on the appropriate role of values and interests in scientific research thinks it is or could be free of them. It now seems obvious that social, political, and economic values and interests influence research on weapons, for example, or health and the environment. Yet the dominant late twentieth-century philosophies of science have tended to conceptualize the reliability and predictive power of the results of research as damaged by such values and interests, and they continue to do so in spite of powerful analyses of how sciences operate in practice and in spite of the rise around the globe in the last four decades of various forms of participatory action research and citizen science, both of which take their research agendas from the concerns of disadvantaged groups. Why are the epistemic/scientific norm of objectivity and the social/political norm of diversity still perceived as inevitably in conflict with each other? Why aren t they perceived as in conflict only sometimes, but many times as providing valuable resources for each other? How can we promote science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just? Sandra Harding probes these questions with clarity and concrete cases, and in doing so puts severe pressure on conventional philosophies of science and points to intellectually sounder and politically more progressive ways to think about them. She proposes a new way to relink sciences and their philosophies to democratic social relations, even while these are themselves undergoing transformations. A must read for anyone interested in how to think about the politics of science globally."

Download or read book Paradigms and Revolutions written by Gary Gutting and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: